A 4.8 is just over the threshold of what can be felt and causes no real damage. Shelves falling and the like is about the extent of it.

The earthquake was real, there are too many reports from people who felt it. The depth though is odd. You dont see earthquakes originating at only 4km very often.

And the location of the epicenter really gets the eyebrows raised. It forces one to consider that it was deliberately staged and executed. Perhaps a DUMB? Maybe a message from WHs? I cant believe it was BHs sending a message because they would surely try to maximize damage and achieve a death toll where the WHs would do the opposite.

From about 50 miles away, it wasn't really terrible. Kind of felt like the floor was jiggling but nothing was cranking off the shelves or cracking the drywall. Hope everybody else had a similar experience.

Did get a little sea sick though, also had the same thing happen when I experienced an earthquake about 10 years ago.

I spent some time in a top floor apartment in Chinatown SF-one morning around 3 AM, I was awakened by a 4.2 quake; found out that in California below 5.0 is not even worth waking up from..

There was one on the Quebec fault line about 30 years ago, the hurricane lamps shook and I felt something, I was on the phone with a friend from California, as the woodstove pipe quivered, she said, oh, you are having an earthquake, I said, no, we don't get them. It was, and there was a misalignment with my front door that is there to this day. Damage can be like that, things go off center just a bit.

It was felt in Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs.

I think the bigger point is how rare quakes are for this location, and at that magnitude. I've lived in eastern PA 40 years now and never felt anything like that. Let's Roll!

Felt it in eastern Indiana.

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/western-newjersey/usgs-4-8-magnitude-rocks-much-of-east-coast-epicenter-in-hunterdon-county/article_294ae01e-f359-11ee-973d-f7c1a2e258eb.html